Vredenburgites
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Vredenburgites is a genus in the ceratitid family Trachyceratidae
Trachyceratidae
The Trachyceratidae is a family of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Middle- and Late Triassic characterized by shells that are more or less involute and highly ornamented....

. Its shell has numerous, thin, flexious ribs.

Related genera include Anasirenites
Anasirenites
Anasirenites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus within the family Trachyceratidae which is part of the ceratitid superfamily Clydonitaceae; sometimes considered a subgenus of Sirenites. Anasirenites is characterized by a ventral furrow bordered on either side by a continuous keel. The shell,...

, Sirenites
Sirenites
Sirenites is an ammonoid cephalopod from the Upper Triassic included in the Ceratitida, and type for the trachyceratid subfamily Sirenitinae....

, and Wangoceras.
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